The RSM Classic: Picks, Predictions and Odds

The PGA Tour Fall series comes to a close this week at Sea Island, Georgia, where Swedish sensation Ludvig Aberg will look to successfully defend the trophy he claimed by a four-shot margin last season.

This is a two-course venue, with three of the four rounds played on the Seaside Course and one on the more straightforward Plantation layout, which each player will play on in one of his opening two rounds.

Accuracy and solid iron-play can be of more benefit than the ability to hit the ball a long way and Aberg is not surprisingly the +1100 favorite after his win last year, when he closed with two rounds of 61.

However, he has not been in action since the Tour Championship at the end of August and, to make the picture even more puzzling, he has undergone knee surgery since that appearance, so it may take some time for the rust to be brushed off.

There are plenty of other candidates who look capable of ending 2024 on a big high, so let’s have a look at who could have a great chance to claim the last PGA Tour title of the year.

RSM Classic betting picks and predictions

Davis Thompson to win (+1900)

Local hopeful Davis Thompson is just after Aberg in the betting market at +1900 and he could represent good value for another PGA Tour success.

While this is a familiar venue for many of the players in the field, nobody should be more at home here than Thompson, who competed regularly at this venue as an amateur and his father is the tournament director this week.

He was 23rd here when he played as an amateur in 2019 and, while he has been unable to marry that familiarity with the course with a strong performance since, this looks the year that things can finally click into place.

Thompson heads into battle having already been in the winners’ circle this season - he claimed a four-shot victory in July’s John Deere Classic - while he demonstrated his ability to finish well among strong competition when he was eighth at the US Open.

He has also finished second at this year’s Rocket Mortgage Classic and at Myrtle Beach, while he should take great encouragement from his fifth at the Shriners Children’s Open last time, despite being on the wrong side of the draw.

This looks a good opportunity for him to make a strong challenge on a course he knows well and give the rest of the field plenty to think about.

Austin Eckroat to win (+3200)

Austin Eckroat delivered the goods when he won the World Wide Technology Championship on his last outing two weeks ago and there looks to be a strong chance that he can post two wins in quick succession.

Eckroat also claimed the Cognizant Classic in March and he should also take plenty of confidence from the eighth spot he claimed in last year’s tournament.

His mood could hardly be higher and there seems no reason to disregard him in the final tournament of the year.

Greyson Sigg to win (+6000)

Greyson Sigg went through a rough spell in the closing stages of last season as he missed eight of nine cuts from the middle of May to the middle of August.

However, he was plainly able to refresh himself while the game’s big guns were battling it out in the FedEx Cup playoffs and he has emerged in fine form.

He marked his reappearances with fourth spot in the Procore Championship and proved that that was not a flash in the pan as he subsequently finished 11th at the Black Desert Championship and the ninth in last week’s gathering in Bermuda.

Sigg also has excellent course form in the book to build upon too.

He was 15th two years ago when he closed with a 64 and improved on that by tying for eighth 12 months ago, so there looks to be a good chance he can make another big impression.

RSM Classic outright odds

Ludvig Aberg	+1100
Davis Thompson	+1900
Brian Harman	+2800
Si Woo Kim	+3000
Seamus Power	+3000
Denny McCarthy	+3200
Harris English	+3200
Matt Wallace	+3200
Ben Griffin	+3200
Austin Eckroat	+3200
Greyson Sigg	+6000

This article was written by a partner sports writer via Spotlight Sports Group. All odds displayed on this page were correct at the time of writing and are subject to withdrawal or change at any time.